Discovering Antarctica

Accessibility

We want our website to be accessible and easy to use for everyone. Please
read this page if you are having any difficulties!

Multimedia activities

The Discovering Antarctica website has been designed to make full use
of multimedia activities, including Flash activities, movies and sounds.
These require that you have the appropriate plugins installed on your
computer, including up to date versions of Flash and Quicktime. If you
do not have the plugins already, you can download them from the links
below.

Several of the activities also use javascript and cookies. By default
these are enabled in most browsers, but it is possible to disable them
by altering your browser settings. If this has happened then you will
need to enable them again before some of the activities will work.

Text based alternatives to multimedia activities

We have provided text based alternatives to multimedia activities wherever
possible. These will usually be in the form of Microsoft Word files as
this will allow you to format the content to suit your own needs - for
example if you want to enlarge the text, remove answers to questions
and save them in a separate file, and so on.

If you want to save the file to your hard disk, right click the link
and select the "save as" option.

Some of the Word files may be locked, so that users can only type into
forms. To unlock files, go to the forms toolbar in Word and unlock the
file using the password "antarctica".

Resizing the text

If you want to, you should be able to resize almost all of the text
using your browser controls (a few bits of the text are actually graphic
images and therefore have a fixed size).

Simplifying the layout

If you have problems viewing the pages, you can try clicking the 'low
graphics' link at the top of each page. This will remove our styling
from the pages and lay the information out in the simplest possible way.

(Note: if you have chosen to disable javascript or cookies the link
will have no effect - however you can get similar results by changing
the display options using your browser controls - see below).

Changing your browser settings

You might find the links below helpful if you are unfamiliar with the
controls built into your web browser.

For detailed information about changing the display options for Firefox, click
here.

For detailed information about changing the display options for Internet
Explorer, click
here.